Straub/Huillet carte blanche selections at the Public Theatre, New York, 1982

By: b g

From the filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.

credit for list goes to Jonathan Rosenbaum (who organized their retrospective; http://www.fipresci.org/undercurrent/issue_0306/huillet_rosenbaum.htm) and Andy Rector (http://kinoslang.blogspot.com/2007/04/some-straubhuillet-carte-blanche.html)

Not included in Auteurs database:
“Blind Husbands”, 1919, Erich von Stroheim
Straub and Huillet selected the “Civil War” section directed by John Ford from “How the West Was Won”

Selections 11-14 were selected, but not screened. And the two Mizoguchi films at the end of the list (along with “The Smugglers”, 1967, Luc Moullet), were chosen as alternates.
Also, they showed the English-dubbed version of “A Girl is a Gun”

• 01
  Antonio das Mortes
  Glauber Rocha
• 02
  Day of Wrath
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 03
  A King in New York
  Charlie Chaplin
• 04
  A Corner in Wheat
  D.W. Griffith
• 05
  Land Without Bread
  Luis Buñuel
• 06
  Alexander Nevsky
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 07
  This Land Is Mine
  Jean Renoir
• 08
  The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 09
  A Girl Is a Gun
  Luc Moullet
• 10
  Diary of a Country Priest
  Robert Bresson
• 11
  The Big Sky
  Howard Hawks
• 12
  The Indian Tomb
  Fritz Lang
• 13
  Cloak and Dagger
  Fritz Lang
• 14
  Miss Oyu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 15
  Street of Shame
  Kenji Mizoguchi